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Beefing up your bale grazing

By Kim Langen December 4, 2008

“I would rather moderately fertilize 40 acres than highly fertilize four acres.” – LORNE KLEIN Not every cattle producer has been successful with bale grazing, and an expert in the field was on hand at the recent Manitoba Grazing School to tell livestock producers why. Lorne Klein, who was raised on a mixed farm at

Livestock, Opinion, Other livestock

Livestock guardian dogs are valuable employees

By Lorna Wall December 4, 2008

LGDs are just like children and go through all the same stages. David Brennan with Alberta Agriculture Predator Management control offered some useful insights into reducing lamb losses due to coyotes in the Nov. 20 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator. However, although Brennan described the coyote’s hunting style, he did not include that a coyote

News

U. S. House panel to monitor CDS clearinghouse pace

December 4, 2008

Futures exchanges from Chicago and New York will be asked to report in early December on their progress in forming clearinghouses to stabilize credit default swaps, a U. S. House of Representatives committee chairman said recently. The clearinghouses are regarded by U. S. regulators as a way to restore liquidity to the swaps market and

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Hamster wheel business

By Laura Rance-Unger November 27, 2008

”The worst business of all is the one that grows a lot, where you’re forced to grow just to stay in the game at all and where you’re reinvesting the capital at a very low rate of return. And sometimes people are in those businesses without knowing it.” Warren Buffett, 1998 Between 1990 and 2003,

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Federal action urged to reopen beef markets

By Ron Friesen November 27, 2008

Canada’s livestock producers, fed up with international trade barriers, want the federal government to do much more to open up foreign markets for their products. A new industry report recommends 25 steps for Ottawa to take in gaining greater access for Canada’s agricultural exports, especially beef. That includes creating a separate bureaucracy for negotiating international

Country Crossroads

Search for different plants this winter

By Albert Parsons November 27, 2008

Experienced gardeners happen upon unfamiliar plants from time to time. One reason to visit garden centres during the winter, other than to enjoy the wonderful ambience, is to scout out the potted plant section in search of the unfamiliar. One such plant that I came upon was the calathea. Calatheas are rated as “challenging” houseplants

Hogs, Livestock

COOL to slash Manitoba weanling production

By Ron Friesen November 20, 2008

“Half of the weanlings could be gone by next summer.” – KARL KYNOCH Manitoba’s multimillion-dollar weanling pig industry could be cut in half next year because of the recent U. S. country-of-origin meat labelling rule. The Manitoba Pork Council predicts weanling production could fall to two million head in 2009, down from four million projected

Livestock, Opinion

Whole-systems analysis needed

By Don Flaten, Karin Wittenberg November 13, 2008

Laura Rance’s column “Publicity stunt or junk science?” in the Oct. 30 Manitoba Co-operator raises a point about catchy headlines versus the central message. The National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE) is a team of research scientists dedicated to strengthening the environmental sustainability of animal production systems. Through sound and thorough scientific investigations,

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Publicity stunt or junk science?

By Laura Rance-Unger November 6, 2008

The press release from the University of Manitoba’s National Centre for Livestock and the Environment last week spoke volumes. Unfortunately, it said very little about science. It said a lot about sensationalism and just how politicized science has become. “WHEN IT COMES TO FEEDING COWS, GRASS IS NOT GREENER – GRAIN IS,” the boldface, capitalized

News

Heart-smart diets receive berry good news

By Ron Friesen November 6, 2008

“The take-home message for the consumer would be, eat your fruits and vegetables.” – WILHELMINA KALT, AAFC If the latest cholesterol-lowering medication turns out to be blueberries, you can thank a pig. Feeding blueberries to pigs can lower their cholesterol levels by up to 15 per cent, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists have found. And

Daily Network News

Pulse weekly: Canadian pea/lentil exports slow to start 2025/26

Disgruntled with Western pork, China wants to go back to black pigs

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

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